Speculation about the Lock Out and the Future of the NFL

I am not by any means an expert, but in listening and watching the goings on around this lockout, the court's intervention and all the media babble, I have a negative feeling about the future of the NFL.

From all I can find, the NFL owners are claiming that 60% of all combined revenues are going to pay player's salaries and bonus compensation packages. The owners and the NFL are further claiming that they do not need to provide any proof of these claims to the player's union either, and they have to believe them, period!

What do we fans have to do in order to get these big money guys to cooperate?  Do we need a grand jury or something?  Good grief man.  

Another sticky point of contention seems to be that the owners want 18 games in the regular season on top of pay cuts for most NFL players.  Well, from a player standpoint I can understand why they would balk at the notion of more games for less money.

I know some of the players make big huge amounts of money.  Most of the players in the league do not make millions however, and the biggest problems will be for the newer players who have only been there for less than 2 years and maybe haven't yet learned how to manage money.  

As a fan, I see gloom and doom unless the NFL owners open up the "Secret Files" and prove their claims for the union guys to see, and then maybe some compromises could be reached, but until then it seems like there will be a FOOTBALL-LESS 2011 season.

Listening to Adam Schefter talking on the radio yesterday with Dave Logan on KOA, he mentioned his secret source indicated to him that the NFL owners are dead serious about making the changes they want and that way bad things could happen if they don't get their way.

The NFL could simply go out of business, then change their name and re-open the doors as a new entity, and invite everyone to come on in an renegotiate a contract and play again, for a lot less money.  In my mind that would be really evil and greedy, and probably would be followed by many lawsuits for an eternity into the future.

Things look bad right now.  I want these guys to get together and work this out, or they will lose several million fans forever.  I really believe that.